VulnerabilityPublished 25 Aug 2025Updated 3 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-53101: Magick.NET Q16 AnyCPU · ImageMagick has a Stack Buffer Overflow in image.c

Affects Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPUSource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-53101· High 7.4

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.4 High : upgrade to 14.7.0 soon.

Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 22:52 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.4High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

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CVSS scores by source
CNA (GitHub_M)	CVSS 3.1	7.4

Patch: Available – fixed in 14.7.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: High
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: High: A successful attack depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. That is, a successful attack cannot be accomplished at will, but requires the attacker to invest in some measurable amount of effort in preparation or execution against the vulnerable component before a successful attack can be expected. For example, a successful attack may require an attacker to: gather knowledge about the environment in which the vulnerable target/component exists; prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability; or inject themselves into the logical network path between the target and the resource requested by the victim in order to read and/or modify network communications (e.g., a man in the middle attack).
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 14 Jul 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 and Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 and Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 and Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 and Magick.NET-Q16-x64 and Magick.NET-Q16-x86 and Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU and Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 and Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 and Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 and Magick.NET-Q8-x64 and Magick.NET-Q8-x86 to 14.7.0.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
NuGetMagick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU	Affected <14.7.0	Fixed in 14.7.0
NuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU	Affected <14.7.0	Fixed in 14.7.0
NuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64	Affected <14.7.0	Fixed in 14.7.0
NuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64	Affected <14.7.0	Fixed in 14.7.0
NuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64	Affected <14.7.0	Fixed in 14.7.0
NuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64	Affected <14.7.0	Fixed in 14.7.0

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Description

Hi, we have found a stack buffer overflow and would like to report this issue. Could you confirm if this qualifies as a security vulnerability? I am happy to provide any additional information needed. ## Summary In ImageMagick's `magick mogrify` command, specifying multiple consecutive `%d` format specifiers in a filename template causes internal pointer arithmetic to generate an address below the beginning of the stack buffer, resulting in a stack overflow through `vsnprintf()`. ### Additional information Upon further investigation, we found that the same issue occurs not only with mogrify but also with the following subcommands: compare, composite, conjure, convert, identify, mogrify, and montage. Furthermore, we confirmed that this vulnerability has the potential to lead to RCE. RCE is possible when ASLR is disabled and there is a suitable one_gadget in libc, provided that options and filenames can be controlled. ## Details - **Vulnerability Type:** CWE-124: Buffer Underwrite - **Affected Component:** MagickCore/image.c - Format processing within InterpretImageFilename() - **Affected Version:** ImageMagick 7.1.1-47 (as of commit 82572afc, June 2025) - **CWE-124: Buffer Underwrite:** A vulnerability where writing occurs to memory addresses before the beginning of a buffer. This is caused by a design flaw in fixed offset correction, resulting in negative pointer arithmetic during consecutive format specifier processing. ## Reproduction ### Tested Environment - **Operating System:** Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - **Architecture:** x86_64 - **Compiler:** gcc with AddressSanitizer (gcc version: 11.4.0) ### Reproduction Steps ```bash # Clone source git clone --depth 1 --branch 7.1.1-47 https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.git ImageMagick-7.1.1 cd ImageMagick-7.1.1 # Build with ASan CFLAGS="-g -O0 -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-fsanitize=address" ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-shared && make -j$(nproc) && make install # Trigger crash ./utilities/magick mogrify %d%d ``` ### Output ```plaintext ==4155==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow on address 0x7ffda834caae at pc 0x7f1ea367fb27 bp 0x7ffda834b680 sp 0x7ffda834ae10 WRITE of size 2 at 0x7ffda834caae thread T0 #0 0x7f1ea367fb26 in __interceptor_vsnprintf ../../../../src/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:1668 #1 0x7f1ea2dc9e3e in FormatLocaleStringList MagickCore/locale.c:470 #2 0x7f1ea2dc9fd9 in FormatLocaleString MagickCore/locale.c:495 #3 0x7f1ea2da0ad5 in InterpretImageFilename MagickCore/image.c:1696 #4 0x7f1ea2c6126b in ReadImages MagickCore/constitute.c:1051 #5 0x7f1ea27ef29b in MogrifyImageCommand MagickWand/mogrify.c:3858 #6 0x7f1ea278e95d in MagickCommandGenesis MagickWand/magick-cli.c:177 #7 0x560813499a0c in MagickMain utilities/magick.c:153 #8 0x560813499cba in main utilities/magick.c:184 #9 0x7f1ea1c0bd8f in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58 #10 0x7f1ea1c0be3f in __libc_start_main_impl ../csu/libc-start.c:392 #11 0x560813499404 in _start (/root/workdir/ImageMagick/utilities/.libs/magick+0x2404) Address 0x7ffda834caae is located in stack of thread T0 at offset 62 in frame #0 0x7f1ea2c60f62 in ReadImages MagickCore/constitute.c:1027 This frame has 2 object(s): [32, 40) 'images' (line 1033) [64, 4160) 'read_filename' (line 1029) <== Memory access at offset 62 underflows this variable HINT: this may be a false positive if your program uses some custom stack unwind mechanism, swapcontext or vfork (longjmp and C++ exceptions *are* supported) SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow ../../../../src/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:1668 in __interceptor_vsnprintf Shadow bytes around the buggy address: 0x100035061900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100035061910: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100035061920: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 0x100035061930: f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100035061940: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 =>0x100035061950: f1 f1 00 f2 f2[f2]00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100035061960: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100035061970: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100035061980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100035061990: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1000350619a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes): Addressable: 00 Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Heap left redzone: fa Freed heap region: fd Stack left redzone: f1 Stack mid redzone: f2 Stack right redzone: f3 Stack after return: f5 Stack use after scope: f8 Global redzone: f9 Global init order:

CWE-124Buffer Underwrite (Buffer Underrun) (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: Medium
The product writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location prior to the beginning of the buffer.
Requirements
Choose a language that is not susceptible to these issues.
Implementation
All calculated values that are used as index or for pointer arithmetic should be validated to ensure that they are within an expected range.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.3 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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